~~ A Eastern and Middle States. HEPOITONPIRNE NAVY res seve svn ye ay SECRETARY HERBERT /EC- OMMENDS MORE WARSHIPS, He Advises the Constenetlon of Three Battle<Ships and Twelve Torpedo Boats ~The Naval HKstimates The New Submarine Boat-~Japan Teaches a Lesson. The annual report of the Navy Depart- ment has just been made publie, The most important recommendation mada by Becretary Herbert is that Congress au thoriz» the construction of three great bat. tle-ships of about 10,000 tons displacement, to coe, exeineive of armament, not exosed. Ing $4.000.000 each, and boats «oo! irom discretion of the Seorstary, to cost not ex. ceasing un avarage of $170,000, There are many features of interest in thie report, not only in the way of review of naval progress at home and abroad but also relating to grant questions of naval polioy, He shows that sines his last report splendi | ships have been completed, tried and a tded to the naval list, three of which are eapahie of spend in excess of twenty-one knots, wille two of them are the fleetest orulsers in the world, The flva vesesls are the Marblehead, 15.44 knots, Columbia, 22.60 knots + Olympia, 21.60 knots Mont- gomery, 19.006 knots, and Minneapolis, 28.076 knots, One importent change of naval policy is noted in connection with the advertise. ments for thre + now torpedo boats soon to be jssued, The Secretary says that no speed provisions will be allowed on these boats ; that the premium system undoubtedly had | its advantages when adopted, but the de- artment is now convinced that the time as coms when, with the experience gained, it may with profit beabandoned. Still treating of torpedo boats, the report shows the startling number of these eraft now on hand in foreign countries to be 128% and the number building 182. Great Britain has 175 on hand and sixty-four building, while Franea is even better off with 214 on hand aud forty-one bullding, Of seventeen countries enumerated, not one has less than twenty-two. Of these boats, the United States, with more coasts and ports than any other Nation has but six, counting three yet to be built, The work on new ship onstruction has proceeded satisfactorily and the deliveries yr which had retarded the work are g made at a rate that promises to in the fall contract supply during the nz. The work on the new gunboats t News Is also going on rapidly, Secretary that these vessels oy ontracted for at a price fally as low ns is paid for similar work In Franee nd. The says Secretary speaks in s of the Kear- : us name from he naval list, he suggests that a y be built to perpetuate it, He also that the renowned old Constitution t in repair and placed on exhibition at the Washington Navy Yard as an object of interest to patriotic Americans, The Secretary has taken a cue from the battle of the Yalu and says that he has given instructions that all but the most necessary woodwork must be removed from our As all guns for our new naval vessels are now nearly finished, the report states that the work of constructing a sufficient reserve store should be com- menced at once, and a proper estimate is submitted to that end, Attention is called in this connection to inet that although the Government is annually expending a large subsidy vessels, such as the Paris and New York, to secure their use intime of war, it has not a gun to put onthem. At present, in case of war, Great Britain could speedily arm her merchant marine on the great lakes and do us enormous damage, while {f we had a reserve supply of guns, we could dominate these waters, On this point of preparation for war in y POgTet O ships, the time of peace, the Secretary makes this very | A y | granite to be erected at Washington's birth. significant comment ““The latest and one of the most impressive lessons in ail history is now being taught by China and Japan. A Nation, the most pop- ulous fo the world, able put millions of fighting men into the fleld, is now, after suf faring many disasters, scouring Earope and America munitions of war. It reliad upon its num? Now it is buving dis- carded guns and discarded ammunition, whatever ot, to ald in repelling the wople vastly inferior to it in » 10 tor ore, sretary caused experiments to be vow port to < termine the probable eet upon the crew of a submarine boat the explosion of torpedo charges. Live animals were inclosaed in an old Lay torpado case, which was sahmerged in fifteen foot of water, and charges of eighty pounds of gun wera exploded at various dis. tances from 431 feet to eighty feet, damage was done to the inmates and it been demonstrated that the crew ms will be sats so long as the 1s not ruptured, The na i ing June 30, 1806, amount to $30.1 of which % } 92 is to make j upon rto authorizing the strustior machin®ry, Armor armament easels HOW Approact ing co stom end of tb of wotton rine boas i esl [his appropriation, wt x | fue o fiscal yoar, will be substantially the last, for, with the expenditure otf $730, 000 in 1897, the existing new navy will be entirely paid for. THE CZAR MARRIED. Princess Alix, of Hesse, Becomes Em. press of Russia. npie I “1 indotted ness bhelore the The marriage of the Czar Nicholas IL, of Russia, to Princess Alix, of Hesse, was cel ebrated at the Winter Palacs amid every demonstration of rejoicing on ths part of the population of St, Petersburg. Emperor Nicholas, the King of Deamark, the King of Greece, the Prince of Wales, | the Grand Dukes and the royal princess were | grouped in Malachite Hall, where they | awaited the arrival of the bride, i At 11.30 o'vloek Prince Dolgoronuk!, Grand | Maater of Ceremonies, and Count Vor. ! ontzofl-Dashdoff, Minister of the Imperial Court, aunounoced to Emperor Nicholas that all was ready, and Princess Alix, her train borne by four court dignitaries, two on each side, and the extremity of the garment held by the Grand Chamberlain, entered the hall, She wore a jeweled crown and a robs of white broeaded slik, with a mantle of straw- berry colored velvet, trimmed with gold and a double row of ermine, The gowns of the Madies specially varied in style ; some were all white, others red or yellow, nnd somes were of white with trim- mings of various colors. The manties worn were chiefly of blue, purple or gold, All of the ladies wore headdresscs with coronets of pearls and long tulle veils, and each lady's dress was mado with a long train, The ceremony was of a mot Impressive character and lasted nearly two hours, The marriage service took place in the Cathedral, It was the one In use in the Orthodox Church, At the conclusion of the service, when the Czar and his bride went to Kazan® Cathedral to Invokes the Divine pro- tection, the enormous orowd, whisk completely filled the Newsky Prospect, the great square in which the eathe- deal stands, ade the most rantie demor- strations of joy ns the Imperial cortege ai tered the eat'iedral, and again when it lef, the enthusiastic shouts blending with the roar of guns irom the fortress poaly from all the bells in the eity, A c——— Govenwsexr nut orities have deeded that it fs not nesssiry to send troops to Torpedo | twelve torpedo | 100 to 5300 tons each, at the | five | ladian Territory to suppress the Cook gang. Davin Monaax, coupon and discount olerk . nthe Bank of the Republic, New York Oity, | was discoverad to ba short $15,000 in his | weounts, 810,000 of whioh was made good, Tux Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Company's { stool mills resumed operations with 1000 sands, Two brothers, named Harry and Engene Sanders, were killed near Bowanstown, They were ploking cont on the rall- cond track, Fax destroyed the entire business portion of Lyndonville, Vt,, anospt J. L. Watohis's | grocery and Dodire & Watson's furniture | store, The loss is £200,000 ; Insurance $180, | 000, distributed among nearly twenty com- | panies, Ix New York City, Moses Holstein wne run over and killed by a Broadway cable | ear, and Joseph Bello was killed by a Sev- enth avenus horse car. Prxxiruss Harry Menior Jutiped from ! the Brooklyn Bridge with a parachute. | Tar University of Pennsylvania football | eleven defeated Harvarl's team at Univer | sity Fleid, Philadelphia, by n score of 18 to | 4. Twenty-five thousand people were present, Cranres N. Riomanps, a well-known saloon keeper and tormer proorietor of the Jofferson House in Watkins, N. Y., enterad theroom of Kate Quirk, a domestic employed at the Kendall House, and after killing her by cutting her throat he cut his own throat and died a few hoars later. Two men with drawn revolvers entered a saloon In New York Oity, and when the pro- | priotor and the customers did not throw up their hands at the command, fired seven shots, slightly wounding two of the custom. ers, One of the men fired two shots at a polfeaman. He was captured, but the other esoaped, Hexny O. Haveseyen, President of the American Sugar Refining Company, more | Sugar Trust, an- | widely known as the nounced that the big plants of the trust in Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia ahd else- where would be shut down for an indefinite period. Fifteen thousand men are to be hrown out of work, Threats of free sugar, overproduction and the bad times forced a sessation, Mr, Havemeyor says. South and West, Dirnrurnia in Detroit, Mich. has rapidly inereased and the closing of all the schools has bean ordered, Tux Trans-Mississipp! Congress began ils sessions in St, Louis, Mo E. P. Hruutanp, a Chicago eapitalist, was shot and killed in his offles by a milkman, who thought Hilllard bad defrauded him. A rarrixo wall killed three men in Spring- fleld, TIL Suxniry McGee was killed at Canadian Clty, Texas, by bandits who tried to rob an EXDross Tux Commercial Bank at Lamoni, Iowa, was entered and the safe blown by robbers, The robbers secured £10,000 In money and considerable jewelry. train train open Eraur lives have been lost and pr yperty ymounnting to §1,000,000 destroyed by forest fires in the bottoms of Tennessee, Wanraxts wore issued at Chicago for the irrest of James M. Aubery, son-in-law of Justice Faller, of the United States Jourt, who Is acouseld forging als father-in-law's name, suprems ( of Washington. Mone than twenty-five members of Con- gross, it is said, havs written lotters to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, asking that their mileage for this session be forwarded to them, as they do not wish to come to Washington this winter, Taz British Minister in the Mosquito Reservation sent to Port Limon for a war- ship. The United States ship Columbia started from Jamalea for Bioeflelds, and Secretary Gresham (nstracted Ambassador Bayard by cable to ask the British Foreign { Offien to explain why Great Britain refused jto reoGaaize tie Nicaraguan Government, Paorossts for a monument of Amerfoan place, Wakeflald, Va,, have been invited. I'he amount available for the monument is $11,000 Tux President spent Thanksgiving Day at Woodley with his family, having no com- pany. The members of the Cabinet who were in Washington dined quietiy at their homes, Tux roll of the next House as sent to the printer shows 244 Republicans, 104 Demo- rats, § Populists, 1 Sliverite and one wa- gant seat, Tax annual report of the Superintendent of the Life Saving Borvice has been Issued. Forelgn. A cowzry woman about thirty years old was found dead in a frequented thorough. Holland Villas Road, Kensington, London, about midnight, Her throat was eut and some newspapers intimated that ft was another “Jack the Ripper” erime, It is now stated that the Chinese loss at the battle of Port Arthur was three thou. sand mea. A peoasz abolishing publie executions in Spain has been issund at Madrid, Onrxa's special peace rived in Japan fare, commissioner ar. A rianiso schooner arriving at Cape Bro. ton, Nova Sootia, reports that the Faloon, Arctic Explorer Poary's vesse!, was lost with all on board off the Newfoundiand const Tue recent flood at Limasol, Island of Cyprus, drowned twenly-two persons, damage to property is estimated at $250,000, Tae American colonies in Berlin, Rome, | London and Paris had Thanksgiving din- ners, Ls oivil and military chiefs at China, have been formally high treason. SIX Huse Cuaxo, Prince Kung and the Port Arthur, DROWNED. | A Fishing Schooner Run Down and Sunk in Boston Harbor, A collision oeccurrel at the entrance to Boston (Mass,) Harbor, by which the flishing schooner Gracle H. Benson was sunk and six of her crew drowned. The Benson was proseeding out the chan nel with a fair wind ; when about midway be tweon Boston Light and Bugz Lignt, the Philadelphia and Reading steamer Roading withthe barge Suffolk in tow, from Phila. deiphia, loomed up ; In endeavoring to tack noross the steamer's bow the steamer struck her on the port side and she filled and sank in about two minutes, The Reading immediately lowsred a boat which went to the assistance of the crew of the sunken vesssl, She sacoeoded in plek- ing up seven who were clinging to wreek- ne, he tugboat Wesley A, Gove rescusd four who were slinging to one of the mast. heads, They Informed the eaptain that one of the crow had drifted off on the booby hateh, and another on a trawl buoy, The Gove went in search of them, and quite a distance outside of Boston Light regoned the man from the booby haten, foon after the trawl buoy was found, but the man had become exhausted and sank. Four of the crew were asleep in thelr bunks at the time of the collision and went down with the vessel, Another was knooked overboard by the foros of the collision and drowned, Ir is stated that, in consequones of the cold, wet season and the consegaont lack of flowers, the bees in France have been uns. bie to make honey enough to feed them. selves, nnd that it will be necessary for bes enltivators to supply their hives with honoy or sugar 10 keep the bees alive, The | charged with | THE POSTORFIGE REPO NOVEL RECOMMENDATI BY MR. BISSELL. The Postmaster-General Has o by Which Newspapers and Per foals May Be Carrled Free Revenues for the Flscal Year Other Statistios, Postmaster-General W, 8. Blasell has mitted to the President his annual report jr the year ending June 30, 1804. He bridy outlines the policy of the department in je following “In general I would recommend that first and most important thing to be dons to revise the law as to second class ma 80 as to place the Postoffies Department mediately upon a self-sustaining basis, | *Second--Avold expensive experimen lika the postal telegraph, rural free Selle | ete, “Thiri—Davelop the postal servios by | isting lines of the Administration, viz. : ! tend fres delivery in cities that now enjoy} Accord it to towns aiready entitled it to det the law. Quicken rallroad transport | tien, ] p NOVEL UNDERTAKING. \ Great Company Furnishes its Kme ployes Free Medical Attendance, Willism LL. Douuias, President of the ¥. LL. Dougins Bhoo has always wd a great personal interest In the army of pen and women who inhabit the groat fac= ory at Montello, Mass, Heo ian groat bes fever in the idea that manofacturers shoul anve this personal interest in the condition their employes, nnd feels that if the fden is exrried out to the extent that is hossible, ‘hat it will result ultimately inthe yroakin lown of the barriers which have been balit ap between employers and those whom they suploy. Mr. Douglas is satisfied that a scheme he has originated is a good one, and he has now put it to practical test, A few days ago he handed to every person in his employ — and they form a small army-—& ecard, which entitled the bearer *““10 full and free medical attendanes while employed by the W. L. Douglas Bhae Company. A competent and skilful physician will be st the private office Co,, days and holidays, he orined at home by sickness, the phy slolnn will give full and free medical attend s compnny at 12 nu. dally, wxenpt pune | of the compnny If sald employe should | ance there,” Blank spaces are left in the card for the | name and residence of the employe, and it | is signed by Mr. Douglas, as President ofthe W. L. Douglas Shoe Company. The condh tion for rallway mall service, and reclassi) | clerks In postoffices, *Fifth—Provide for district supervisiq | of all postal affairs by a {ntment of exp | postal officials from olassified service, | recommended in my last annual report.” The revenus for the ysar was $75,0%0,47 | expenditures $54.824.414, leaving a od | flolenoy of #9,284,985. The estimates for tH ecurreat year ending June 58, 1805, ard | Revenue $84,427 748, sxpenditures $90,800) {A5, deflolency $5,071,787, | This annual deflolency, the Postmasters | General says, could be overcome by an ing eroase of postal rates, but he does not bes b lieve this advisable. It could be canceled! by a readjustment of rates on second-class | matter, i Mr. Bissell refers to the war made by thd { department on lottery schemes passing undeg the name of “bond fovestment companies,’ | and says it has been waged sucosssfully. Hd recommends the enactment of laws coverad in bills now pending before Congress {od the further suppression of lotteries, Of the obstruction of ‘malls by strikes, the | Postmaster-Genaral says : “In my last annual report 1 called atten- tion to the necessity for legislation such as then was and Is now rocommendad by the Superintendent of Ballway Mall Service for the punishment of tram wrecking and for lagislative determination and definition of a mall train. Bach legisiation would great advantage to the postal service, and during the past year weuld most likely have prevented the embargo placed apon the mall trains of the Great Northern Ballway by the strike which practically tied up that system from April 18to May L “It would also have lessenad the loss of He, destruction to property, loss of revenus to ths department and other great evils inal. dent to the greater strikes that paralyzed al business to a greater or less extent fro June 27 until July 34 of this year.” One of the most important and interesting features of Mr. Bissell's report is its discus. sion of olass matter. In his last report he raferred to the great disproportion of growth of second class matter and intimated that he did not believes it was dae to the growt! of genuine newspapers and periodicals so much as the enterprise of merchants, manu facturers and others taking advantage of the law to secure entry of advertising matter foto this favored class, “1 do not,” he says, "advocates a change of rates now upon legitimate newspapers and periodical magazines, My purpose is to urge the withdrawal of low postage rates fromthe large oftios and the pretended periodicals that are now improperly «njoying them ; not only on aceount of the inherent propriety of | that course, but because I am simost bo | less of ever seeing the financial condition | of the department propesty. | until such withdrawal is brought about. | “The most conspletous class of these pre. tendad periodicals are what are now gaoner. ally known as serial paper coversd books, They are nothing but books, pure and sim. ple, and many of them very trashy books at that, each one distinot in itself, the “series’ nover being devoted to anvthing ia partica- lar, heving few sutmeribers, and with no ron! subscription prices, except a nominal one, for not one man in a hundred ever dreams of baying the boeks except as he would buy any other book. “This state of things is nor merely a wrong to the Government and 10 the senders of other cinsses of mail matter, whish, pro- ducing a surplus of revente, arethus anduly taxed, but it is a wrong to the publishers of other books, and, I believe, a sort of dstase ment of the Nation's literature.” Mr. Blasell commends the Internations Postal Union, The Postmaster-Geannral does not favor the postal telegraph, a system ad- voeated by his predecessor. The conditions m this country, he says, ars such as would enormously inereass the large defleit, He takes as example the system in Great Britain, which is a comparatively small territory, and shows that the postal telsgraph entalis an annual Joss of about €2.00000, He points out that in a country where the ter ritory is 80 large and where the star routes exeond in length the railroad and steam boat routes 70.000 miles, although the former are 170.000 miles in length, that the wt of a postal telegraph would lar exceed ny possible reosipta EE a— OCEAN POSTAL SERVICE. Report of the Superintendent of ! Forelgn Malls. | “Fourth-—Revise and reclassify organist | | ba of i Captain N. M. Brooks, Superintendent of | Porelgn Malls, in his annual report, gives an interesting description of the ocean postal serviee, He mays the international sea postofficea have been in continuous operation on tha fast steamships of the North German Lloyd Com- pany and the Hamburg-Amerioan Packet Company, 113 trips having been made from Now York and 115 from Germany. Sen postofMos clerks wiso have beon on duty on the New York and Paris of the Ine ternational Navigation Company, thirty-one trips having been made from New York and thirty-two from Southampton. He says. “Our communication with the west coast of Central and South Ameriona is regular and reliable at least three times a month by means of! steamships plying between Now York and Colon,” Captain Brooks says that by utilizing the fast steamahi salling ones or twice a month from Tacoma, Wash., as well as the steamships sailing regulary three times a month from San Francisco, the opportuni ties for the exchange of malls with Japan and China have been increased to not loss than four, and sometimes to five, dispatches a month, There has been ho extension of the ani versal postal union during the year, nor in- deed Is there mush territory yet to be aes quired, as the Chinese Empire, Cape Ole ony, the Orange Free State and certain groups of Islands are the only countries and colonies now remaining outside of the limits of the postal union. Captain Brooks oalls attention to the fact that the next Postal Congress will meet in ashington in 1807, and to the eclrcums stance that under the provisions of the Uni- versal Postal Convention of Vienna this dee partment is under obligations, ns s00n #4 to reduce its stration foe to ve cents, and to assume a limited bility for registered articles Jost in ha Tre Alama coriviet farm has not worked satisfactorily, and it is proposed now to re- turn to the leass system, and hire out the conviets to nine owners, ita per ro tions printed on the card are as follows the city limits, This ticket is not employe, ] the term of employment ceases, This lege Is a free gift of the company and part of the contract jor Wages, and may be mads void by the company, st its ows option, without notice,” I vi A doctor has been #ngaged to attend sick employes, and everything that medical skil oan accomplish will be done for them dur ing lliness, This is n practices: {llustration of the plan dreds who receive the cards, Mr, Douglas believes there ase hundreds of workingmen and workingwomen who fin! a doctor's bil a great burden after a period of enforced fdleness, and that if this is lifted from them they must feel that thelr employer is Inter ested in them In some cther way than sim ply to get all the work be can for just as lit tle money as he can, Mr, Douglas says als that there are men and women who keef work when ft would be better fo) heaith if they ald off a ot ol y and received medical attendances, hen again they will now feel free to consult the doctor for slight troubles, which heretolon they would not do beenuse of the cost, king of the W, L. Douglas 8hoe Co, may be sald furt her that in thelr factory the principio Is re Mr Dou m believer prinetple ® the of the I'he firm oblige ant to sub rye tion nized, wind ard of Arbitration, } et SID AD ARTeen nent that may and snnot be settled by the interested ¢. to the State Board of Arbitration i ” gision of that Board to be final, ishment arise, § the de — CR — FOOTBALL. Yale Defeats Harvard Tragedies and Accidents so—— Harvard foot. culminated rm of 23,000 greatest VY A BX our, There wera pden Park, the r gathered oye at thess an- enoss and the new rues interest ing ever by of aocidents tyler ee. Fame, gd the fer tha marred howevar, w gene § gist "ny Rreate Bu oocntrrel probably the that in big Harvard's schdown was scoured by really better work then Yale's two, which were made on flukes of Harvard's piay- §— w amubamedenorlmg Lwin alain by the Tarest possible margin on two drop Kicks of Palr-hild, the first of which hit the cross bar of Yale's gos! and the second of which sent the Hall betwoan the eross bars, pot thiny after time was called, Experts thought Har have won exonpt for bad lack, a 3t for the re. feran’s biun have been 13t0 9 iz Fe Bil Foneh 1: Hayes, 1 Hickok, 2 wrong, j Wrightington, worth, Final seo Playing time Whole time of nrney Foote, (XK. Y.) Seminar the result of Fools was aloven, and was a good jury to the head caused the derangement. Fo arose at night and dresse his foot. tall suit, He gral roommate and threw him wi : amused hin by lining against the his valise the football, rash: knocking them from their hinges, {is parents came from thelr home at Deansville, Madison County, N. Y., sod took him to the Utica Insane Asylum, At Shreve, Ohio, Waltar teen yours old ball game which cause “Interfering” with an was thrown heavily tothe ground and five or six of the players fall on him, Whea was extrioated he wae paralyzed from the neok down, and asurgieal examination dis- closed the fact that the spioal eolumn had been fractured, Danial MeTiernan, aged fourteen, while playing football at Worcester, Mass, was fallen upon by one of his companions, Ha went home feeling dimy. When his father went to eall him next morning he was dead, The University of Michigan football eleven | were billed to play the Grand Rapids High {| Bohool team on Thanksgiving Day in Grand | Rapida, Ju consequence of the event the | Park Congregational Church postponad ite | annual Thanksgiving secvies until evening, { The reason given was that the Sunday- | sohool leader and many backers of the home tsam who belong to the church wanted to at. tend the game. oye - one 1 arn ard should nt ier the i Harvard, 4 2 $0 minutes each, Q& a student at the Fairfleid wasiaken vio Aan injury in 8 foo! ment er TH aenter i »utly insane, ail game, te wsif in wed siently ote up toys Riaskburn, nine in a foot isath While aver Blackburn , recaived ries 1 his thert he A —. ————————— REFUSED TO FIRE, Two California Militia Companies to Bes Mustered Out, Inquicy appointed to investigate the conduct of the California militia at Bseramento, dur ing the strike, Governor Markha® orders! Companies A, Second Infantry, and G, Third Infantry, musterad out of service, They refused to fire up + strikers at tue station, The Governor (thinks the censure 1niposed ofl several oMeers by the court is excessive In comparison with that imposed on others, and says that it is avi. dent that no fatantionnl Wrong was com mitted ; that, excluding mistakes, wach of these officers ormed his daty wich com mendable ability and promptoaess, FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION, Two Men Killed and Two Fatally in. jured at Danby, N, ¥, Word lids boon received of no boiler ex- plosion at a saw mill in Danby, Tompkins County, N. Y. William Bleros and a man named Van Lieu were killed, while Henry Beardsley and Fremont Ma¥all were so bad: ly scalded that they cannot recover, “The physician will not make visits outside | s ne | | of the | model It will doubtless be appreciated by the hun | 0 As a resuit of the report of the Court of | — A HUGE BANK ROBBERY A NEW YORK INSTITUTION LOSES $354,000. The Shoe and Leather Bank Plan dered by Collusion Detween the Bookkeeper and a Depositor- The Former Fled and the Lat ter Committed Suicide, A defaleation of $354,000 in the Shoe and Leather Bank, the flight of Bookkeeper Beoly, who stale the money, only to hand it over to a man who had him in his power the search for the arch conspirator. who bs #aid to be Lawyer Froderiek Baker, nnd hi death by drowning while the of the earthed In New York City In many a day, The thefts began nine years uo and oon | tinted up toa few days before Besley took refuges in flight, having learned that a change in the system of ledger keeping would make | farther concealment of his erime an impossi. bility. And when it wns dlscoverad, the bank found itself with its whole $190,000 wiped out, and a defleit of §150,000, {| which the stockholders must make good, | Seely's thefts franater. | were accomplished through a confederate, | able, and does not apply to the family of the and must be returned as soon af | It has been learned that an old-time depositor in ths bank, snd that the stealings had been carried on during a period of nine years, The bank officials say this confederato is a “Lawyer Frederick Baker,” Seeiy's cbun- pel, to whom the defanlter made full fesslon, says the confederates was a lawyer, Here is the story of the robbery as gnth- ered from the bank officers © Bamuel C, Bee ly, aged forty-two, was taken in the employ bunk fourteen years ago, Beely considered by his superiors to be a bank employe. He was in eharge of what Is “individusl meccounts.” in his care the books containing th smounts in alphabetionl order from A 10 L, Bealy's bond was for 87500, given by the United States Guaranty Company, which regarded him as a model risk. Toe officers never had a susplelon of anything wrong in Sesly's nocounts until thelr eyes were opened almost by accident, The Buoe and Leather Bank been ia the habit of frequently ing its clerks about as is done of such institutions, and in eharge of the after year, ti familiar with the ing of the A to L the officers of the bank have considered the oon. wns book« Known having " keeper ns the bank has not chang in Rand Any OO been year mame becoming tt habits and i re star deposit Recently scheme of changing the clerks about, and a for ks w of clerks w week hel employes thal a new set a transfer wre Beely fled they | ol Ix opened nA : : an heard the and knew tl wt our Hoely of he re. ioak dete ' & day at sunsi, bot matter o asked if he conul substitute ex Preside thest nt Crane's « ement that Beeld: : him to of $354,000 and that Baker, an old-time deposit as the #200 man, because he drew from the bank nearly every The metho yf rol its simplicity, Seely wonid that be thou from epositor, one which disturbed by additions withdrawals, This, of course, would not be discovered in a very short time, and when it would come time 10 balances this second sccount Seely woule simply transfer to it the necessary | fam, which be Recount, In this way the books shortage, be desired. Th lan was gurer eredit This sum the account of some was not usually down to right, put his u ght would Other aeguet or would show no Baker would get all the money made all the fact that See. ito the hands while at the same 10 write up the pass. yositors whose accounts ir he kept in his } Warras BrTest « heard of { detertives a1 issued for the asker, but the Iatter had max and when the ymediately eS ha Long Island, ) drowned a supposedly wealthy and sixty years of re the try residence rast age, Intter's Nn of ) FUR AWAY It «3 10 AY ———— ATTACKED BY A LION. Tamer Veno ( hewed Up Before a Horrified Audience, Professor Veno, a los-tamer, was giving an exhibition at Wilkeshbarre, Penn., when | Wallacker, a vicious biack-maned African Hon, which has killed five men, refused to Jump through hoops and do his other tricks as usual, Veno whipped the lon, which sprang at him and bit nis leg slightly, Veno entered Wallacker's cage again and as the lon still refased to do his tricks he again need the whip. Wallaocker sprang at {| Yeno with a roar, knocked him down and fastened his tooth in his hip. Shrieking with pain Veno strack the lion in the faon with a small iron shield he ear rind and after two or three blows drove him | off. | Veno's ass'stants foroad Wallacker towards { his corner, but before he reached it he | again sprang at Veno, reaching for his | throat, Veno pot up his hand and the lion | erunched it horribly, One of the attendants | stunned the lion with an iron bar, and before he recovered Yeno was dragged out, lost a great deal of blood and, it was feared, sould not recover, The fight caused a panic in the audience Javan women fainted, but no one was ure. WHEAT OROP DAMAGED. Farmers in Western Kansas Groatly Discouraged at the Outlook. Three-fourths of the wheat orop sown in the western third of Kansas is rainsd by the continued drought. In the Iatter part of September rains fell, which caused the grain to sprout, but inthousands of fields the plant fa demd, In the oantral belt the groun i le very dry and the t will dis if rains do not come soon, Persons from that section say that farmers ate greatly discouraged by the con Tue fanetal train which esnveyed the body of the deal Czar of Rassias to St Potvrsburg, Aid not run to the satisfaction of the new Czar, and consequently the Min. Motor of Raliways has resigned. " detective | were hunting for him, is the epitome of one | most starting stories of erime un. | surplus of | would “dsduet from a thied | | Beans--Marrow, 1854, choloe, Squabs, ¥ doz. He | FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY. Two Men Killed on the Elevated Rail- road In New York, Theres was a fonrful accident in New York City onthe Bixth Avenue Elevated Road at Cortlandt street, Dr, Francis 8B, Whettemors, of Xo, 1% West Forty-third steoot, recently from Sandwich, Mass., aged thirty-six, and his friend, George I. Basley, aged thirty-two, ot 0, B08 West 120th strest, wore mangled to death under the wheels of a train, The accident hap- pened at 8.156 o'clock y m. Whettemore was instantly killed, Basley died twenty minutes later, in the House of Relief, on Hudson street, The latter was sn drummer in the employ of E. C. Hazard & Co., whole sale grooers, Whettemore and Basley, accompanied by a friend, who disappeared after the tragedy, were, it wis thought, skylarking on the latiorm, though one theory was that Bas- ey attempted to commit suleide, and in at- tempting to save him Whettemore was killed, Engineer Aurysen, of the fatal train, made n siatement, o sAaw two men on the plat. form as the engine came into the station they seemed to be struggling. Then he had seen one man break away from the other and throw himself deliberately on the tracks before the engine. The second man tried to catch the one that was falling, lost his bal ance, tottered from the platform and was eaught by the first car, Whettemore was 80 tightly wedged in that it was found necessary to cut out a section of the platform before he could be released, As the policeman chopped the surgeon stood by the man holding his pulse, They had not half completed their work on the platform when the surgeon exslaimed, ‘He dead.” Five minutes later the body was released, It was not until then that they who worked saw under the car, a few feet from where the man had best cut out, the form of anothes wan, Basley, From the other side of the car in the een. tre ol the structure, this man was carried out, His right arm was out off and thos who lifted him, could feel toatl his back wa broken. The dead man was taken tothe Church Street Station, the dying wan to the Hudsox Street Hospital, An hour later, this second man died without recovering consciousness Late Wholesale Prices of Country Produce Quoted in New York. 45 MILE AXD CHBAN. There are n> changes of any importanes to note In the market, The platform sur plus has sold daring the past week gen- erally at an average of $1.67 per oan of # quarts, Exchange prios still remains at 33. per quart net to the shipper, floceipts of the week, fiuld milk, gals Condensed Cream, LARS aya. 1,520,568 milk, gals...... 12,440 gals s “a RUTTER, Creamery —Penn., extras. ..# Western, extras Western, firsts, Susan ntn thirds to second Extra. FER Pirets hot Thirds to seconds saan Western Im. Creamery, firsts Heoonds Western Dalry Factory, June, Western, Bate firkins. CHEDSE, State—Fulleream white faney Fall cream, good to prime. State Factory—Part skims, State & Penn-—Fresh Jersey Funes, ......coonenee Western—Prime to choles. .. Duck eges—South & West Medium, 1864, cholos.... Pea, 1804, chodos....... Red kidney, 1804, oholoe White Kidney, 1503, choloe Bisok turtle soup, 1883. .... Lima, Cal. 1808 $60 Ibs Groen peas, bbls, . ......covene FRUITS AND FERRIES FRESH. ~ 100 2 Lamons aan shonin Omnges, Fia., ¥ box...,.... 185 Cranberries, Cape Cod, ¥bhl 800 Jarsey, ¥ orate . 25 Quinoes, ¥ bhi. aa aans nant Appies, groenings, ¥ bbl..... Baldwin . 2818 Common qualities ae Pears, Nearby, ¥ bbl..... Grapes, Del., € basket... .... Cate wha Coneord » 8: | ERRE8I a wi pt ww Stato 1804, choles, BB... 1594, common to falr....... Pacific Coast, choles. Good to prime... Old odds a. we BAY AXD STRAW, Hay—Prime 2100D........ Clover mixed. . ‘ Straw-—-Long rye Oat ~3 on IVE POULTRY. Fowles. ¥B........0.. Chickens, # B.. .o...... Roosters, oid, ¥ B....... Turkeys, ¥ Ib Ducks, ¥ pair . Gosse, Ppalr....cccovvvnnie Pigeons, ¥palr......vevuvee. DRESSED POULTRY. Tarkeys, Mh, Chickens, Phila, broilers, Western, ..coevavese Jorsey, Ph... Fowls, 3M, coooviviniiincn Ducks, spring, L.L&East® Ib, Goose, ¥ Ib RR - SHO — —- Juss 88311 £33838 E58 9098029089689 9099399099909099309 90000000 YROETARLER, Potatoss, Bt, & Jersey, ¥ bbl Jong Island ..coovavsinnes Sweet, ¥ bbl....... Cabbage, P 100. ........s. Onlons—Yellow, ¥ bbl... Red, ¥ bbl aaa \quash, marrow, ¥ bbl {ubbard a asaasenay Taraips, Russia, ¥ bbi...... NLS pa w Beg plaot, ¥ bblL..... Celery, ¥ doz. roots Cucumbers, ¥ arate. . Tima bonnes, POAg......... Cauliflower, BWbl......000 vn String beans, P orate ggrsgiI 288i 1 1ansgy _ wo ey . Flour--Winter Patents. .... Spring Patents... soeien Wheat, No. 2 Bed. ccvivniiw Oorn-NO. $..c000i0cnssienns Onats<No, 2 White. ...c.uuvu Bor cL RR yo-State..... Barley Ungraded Western. Boeds—Timothy, #100... .. Lard Oty Steam ......c0ue LIVE STOCK. FEISi1181188 a5 FEY ERR AS EER EERE. 818558 25! Calves, city dressed. ........ Country dressed .....oo0 0 LAL FRO | Lambs, # 100 Ba... .oinees H Live, $100 Ba. ...... 4 desonrrsssinnissnine esddRVEIn ots 2 *888.53. —
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